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Hollywood Trivia


Questions I

  1. Travis Bickle is a the anti-hero protagonist in which movie?
  2. Which Academy Award winning movie is 227-minutes long and does not have a single line spoken by a woman?
  3. In Old California was the first movie shot in Hollywood. Shot in 1910 and just 17-minutes long, who was the director?
  4. Which sex symbol of the 1920s was known in Hollywood as the "Latin Lover"?
  5. With which movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar?





  6. Which actress married singer and actor Kyle Lovett after meeting on the set of The Player in 1993?
  7. Which film released on February 7, 1940, was the second animated feature film produced by Walt Disney?
  8. Who portrayed Sharon Tate in the 2019 movie Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood?
  9. Which short people celebrated when the house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East?
  10. Who won the only competitive Oscar of his career for the The Philadelphia Story in 1940?
  11. Who is best known as the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
  12. "You have to do the best with what God gave you" is a quote from which movie?
  13. Elizabeth Taylor received the best reviews of her career for which 1966 film?
  14. Who was the head administrative nurse at the Salem State Hospital?
  15. Whose final screen appearance was as herself in Airport 1975?
  16. Who starred as Signor Ugarte in the movie Casablanca?
  17. In the 1930s and 1940s, who performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films?
  18. What was the name of the fictional estate owned by the elderly Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
  19. Which star of many early Western movies was a pallbearer at Wyatt Earp's funeral in 1929?
  20. Which film is the only one that features three of Hollywood's greatest Western stars, John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart?


Answers

  1. Taxi Driver (played by Robert De Niro)
  2. Lawrence of Arabia
  3. D. W. Griffith
  4. Rudolph Valentino
  5. Schindler's List
  6. Julia Roberts
  7. Pinocchio
  8. Margot Robbie
  9. Munchkins (The Wizard of Oz)
  10. James Stewart
  11. Sir Peter Robert Jackson
  12. Forrest Gump
  13. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  14. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
  15. Gloria Swanson
  16. Peter Lorre
  17. Mickey Rooney
  18. Xanadu
  19. Tom Mix
  20. How the West Was Won




Questions II

  1. Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate with the air blowing her white dress was a publicity shot for which movie?
  2. Paul Sorvino played the role of "Paulie" in which film?
  3. Who gained the nickname the "Sweater Girl" after her 1937 movie debut in They Won't Forget?
  4. Who played Juror Number 8 in 12 Angry Men?
  5. Whose performance as Cesira in the 1961 film Two Women made her the first actor to win an Oscar for a non-English-language performance?
  6. Steven Spielberg cast Matt Damon in Private Ryan because he wanted an unknown actor but Damon would win an Oscar for which movie before Private Ryan was released?
  7. Which films starred Spencer Tracy in his final role?
  8. Which actress received the Medal of Freedom in 1947, for her "extraordinary record entertaining troops overseas during the war"
  9. Name John Wayne's last ever film?
  10. "Yamamoto had everything going for him, power, experience, confidence. Were we better than the Japanese, or just luckier?" is a quote from which movie?
  11. Groucho Marx played Captain Jeffrey Spaulding in which movie?
  12. Who made his directorial debut in 1976 with Gator?
  13. Who plays Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life?
  14. Which film was the first that Morgan Freeman narrated?
  15. Whose final on-screen appearance was as an aging cowboy in the 1961 film The Misfits?
  16. Which American silent film actor with the first name 'Roscoe' mentored both Charlie Chaplin and Bob Hope?
  17. Which well-known TV actor played an army major in charge of a convoy in the 1978 film Superman?
  18. In which 1923 American silent comedy movie does Harold Lloyd famously clutch the hands of a large clock as he hangs from the outside of a skyscraper?
  19. Annie Wilkes is the main antagonist in which 1987 film?
  20. Which 1955 American romantic drama film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair?
  21. Which actor did Orson Welles describe as "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera?"
  22. Who is best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind?


Answers

  1. The Seven Year Itch
  2. Goodfellas
  3. Lana Turner
  4. Henry Fonda
  5. Sophia Loren'
  6. Good Will Hunting
  7. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  8. Marlene Dietrich
  9. The Shootist
  10. Midway, or Battle of Midway
  11. Animal Crackers
  12. Burt Reynolds
  13. Donna Reed
  14. The Shawshank Redemption
  15. Clark Gable
  16. Fatty Arbuckle
  17. Larry Hagman
  18. Safety Last!
  19. Misery
  20. Marty
  21. James Cagney
  22. Leslie Howard